La Mano del Desierto, Hand of the Desert, Desert Hand. A unique 11-meter reinforced concrete sculpture located about 62 km south of the Chilean city of Antofagasta, was built in 1992 by the now 85-year-old sculptor Mario Irarrázabal Covarrubias and attracts hundreds to thousands of tourists from all over the world every day. It is…
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Every year around the summer solstice, the Sun sets over the old Lichnice castle ruins when viewed from the Seč city. Lichnice was constructed in the first half of the 13th century. It was first mentioned in 1261, when it was in the possession of Smil of Ronow, who called himself Smil of Lichtenburg, thereby…
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Yes, also I am now one of the lucky people who witnessed of beauty of the largest salt flat in the world, the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. At 10582 square kilometers of 3700 meters above the sea level, is nothing but natural salt and very little water, which can work beautifully as a large natural…
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What are the odds? Yesterday evening, when photographing the sunset from the Vicuña region, Chile, I was incredibly lucky with one shot. An airplane landing at La Serena airport flew just in front of the last edge of the Sun while multiple green flashes occurred too. All took a fragment of a second. According to…
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They used to say the eclipses were bad omens. Well, solar eclipses can truly make people surprised, but now we know that they are just a result of pure and simple physics, mostly optics. Like today’s one, on 29 March 2025, which I symbolically captured over St. Mark Chapel of Dolní Rokytnice (of Rokytnice nad…
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On 14 March 2025 a total lunar eclipse occurred especially over Americas and Pacific Ocean. I was pleased to make my observation of this particular eclipse from NSF Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile. Colors in the Earth’s shadow were vivid, including the turquoise effect at the start and even end of the eclipse (where primarily…
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What odds! This year’s New Year celebration over Oravská Lesná, Slovakia, occurred on a moonless night with a clear sky, and just minutes after the fireworks started, an aurora appeared in the sky. What a great start to the year. So happy New Year 2025 to you all! Used Canon Ra, Sigma 50mm, f1.8, ISO4000,…
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